About 77 per cent or 14.88 crore rural households have been provided with tap water connections till now, according to official data.
There are a total of 19.31 crore rural households in the country, according to official data by the Jal Jeevan Mission.
According to official data, 14,88,16,184 out of a total of 19,31,21,778 rural households have been provided with a tap water connection so far.
Eleven states and Union Territories (UT) have achieved 100 per cent coverage in rural areas, the data showed.
A total of 16 states and UTs have tap water coverage between 75-100 per cent and five states have coverage of 50-75 per cent. Rajasthan and West Bengal have below 50 per cent coverage, according to the data.
Jal Jeevan Mission, launched in 2019, aims to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections by 2024 to all households in rural India.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Featured Video Of The Day
Poll Rules Tweak Makes Electronic Records Harder To Get, Sparks Row
Water Tap In A Dry Rajasthan Village And A Dream Come True Probe Agency Raids Jharkhand Minister's Aides In Jal Jeevan Mission Case Assam Orders Freeze, Audit Of Jal Jeevan Mission Projects Amid Quality Row "Intention To Dupe UPSC": Ex-IAS Trainee Puja Khedkar Denied Pre-Arrest Bail Send Sheikh Hasina Back To Dhaka, Bangladesh Writes To India Software Engineer Loses Rs 11.8 Crore To "Digital Arrest" Scam In Bengaluru IIT Kanpur Graduates Secure 1,100 Job Offers In This Placement Season Swiss Government Adopts More EU Sanctions On Russia And Belarus Young Mammoth's Over 50,000-Year-Old Remains Found Nearly Intact In Siberia Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.